I was on a hike literally yesterday
and I got stopped by these two dudes
that were like, oh hey, you look like Glenn
and I was like, yeah, I was on the show
and then they go, hey, did they kill you off
or like, did you want to leave?
And they gave me like two options
of like, did they force you out
or did you want to leave
and I was like, it's not like that.
And I was with my children
and they were really trying to get to the meat of
like, was I pushed out or not.
And for me, I'm like, I don't have time
to explain this to you first off.
(laughter)
I have two children and we gotta go home.
It's sweltering, it's a hike
but also I was trying, I didn't know how to syncincly say
like, sometimes you just accept what it is
and you just go with it.
Like, there's no tension behind...
Right.
Any of those things, like, when someone presents to you
after five, six seasons on a show
and they go hey, looks like this is the end for you
and also with the added like, bonus of me having
a comic book issue come out two years prior
that says, I'm done.
Right.
You go like, okay.
Like, am I scared?
Am I kinda worried about what's coming?
Like, perhaps, but also okay.
Like, that's just what that is.
I'm not gonna go like, kicking and screaming.
But also, to the point of what brought up before
which is, you can't bring it with you.
You made this, I don't know if it was a conscience decision
but somehow you knew, okay I'm leaving this experience
and I'm not gonna try and replicate it, duplicate it.
I'm not gonna try and find this someplace else
and keep it going.
Yeah.
It's time to change it up.
Yeah, and I don't even know if it's that conscience.
I just think it's like, manifest from me is like,
my police voice in my head says,
if you do it again you're a hack.
And so I just
don't do it again.
I can't, I cringe at, for me personally.
Right, also it's not like
your character could've come back.
No, I'm done.
They made it so clear.
The way in which you departed that show
was so unbelievably brutal.
One of the most shocking things I've seen on television
and I'm including my own early work.
(laughter)
'93, '94
So good, so good.
But no, but I was just, it was not like
Glenn could come back and go,
I've got a terrible headache..
Yeah.
And my eyes knocked out, but I think I'm okay.
(laughter)
Yeah, yeah.
And that's it too, like, those are the blessings
that I feel like I've gotten in my life
which is like an absolute door shut.
Yep.
Like, there's not like a crack in the door.
It's like this is slammed shut
and it's like barricaded.
You can't come back in.
What are you gonna do?
You gonna like, petition outside the door?
Like, they're not gonna open it.
I have to say because you and I
have been friendly and know each other
and I really like you, I got, I will admit,
the actor that plays Negan, who killed you
with a baseball bat...
Yeah, Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
He came on our shows at Comic Con
and I swear to god, it took, it was an effort
for me to not have attitude.
(laughter)
Thank you.
I'm an adult, I'm a, you know, rapidly aging adult
who understands, who's in show business and understands.
I had a little bit of trouble,
like, you fucker.
(laughter)
I feel so bad for Jeffrey, man.
You killed my friend and ...
(laughter)
It was just in there a little bit.
I think I cut him off a few times on his antidotes
(laughter)
or I read the notes and read ahead to what joke
he was gonna do and got there first.
(laughter)
More like a grapefruit, right.
What?
(laughter)
Well, that's all the time we have for this asshole.
(laughter)
Murderer.
(laughter)
Why don't ya get your bat and get the fuck outta here?
Friend killer. My god.
He had such a hard gig.
To like show up, displace the foundation of the show
and then like, continue on.
Yeah, then stick around.
Yeah, like, be there.
(laughter)
Now, let's show the lighter side of Negan.
Yeah, wild.